Archive for nick griffin

Good things happening in Barking & Dagenham Liberal Democrats

4 July 2010 , , ,
It was great to see how the challenge of providing an alternative to Labour that wasn’t the BNP sparked Liberal Democrats in Barking & Dagenham to put up far more candidates than for many years in the local elections this May. At the Westminster level, Dominic Carman used the opportunity to highlight many powerful anti-Nick [...]

BNP hit by allegations of coups, infighting and sabotage

3 April 2010 , , ,
Extract from a leaked BNP email bulletin: For several months the party’s internal security team has been running an extensive and long-running investigation. This was initially tasked to investigate: Alleged financial irregularities and ‘scamming’ concerning the procurement of print, especially large election print run, leaflets and regular publications including Identity magazine. The leaking onto the internet of sensitive [...]

What’s up with Nick Griffin’s expense claims?

31 March 2010 , , , ,
Lib Dem MEP Chris Davies has spotted some rather odd entries in Nick Griffin’s expense claims from the European Parliament. Nick Griffin had previously stalled on publishing his expenses but now he’s given in to the pressure there are some distinct oddities: a) Nick Griffin claims to have donated £5,575.91 to a fund that has only [...]

Total Politics: Dominic Carman responds to the Nick Griffin interview

28 March 2010 , , , , ,
Following Total Politics’s controversial decision to interview Nick Griffin, the magazine’s website is also running responses to it, including one from Dominic Carman (Lib Dem candidate for the same Barking constituency as Nick Griffin): Take three of Griffin’s answers from the Total Politics interview and contrast them with what he told me privately: On Afghanistan: “The only way [...]

A question for people who believe in no-platforming the BNP

12 March 2010 ,
Do you really think that, were the opportunity to arise, it would be wrong for this man to appear in a debate next to Nick Griffin?

How to combat the Nick Griffin and the BNP

21 October 2009 , ,
Jonathan Calder has put better than me the post I haven’t yet got round to writing, so go over and read his blog post about Nick Griffin and the BNP instead.